INTERNSHIPS & GRANTS

InternshipsAAJA-MN offers paid seven-week newspaper, radio and local television internships. Past interns have worked at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Public Radio, the Asian American Press and FOX 9 News.

Application deadline for summer internship: April 30

Grants are offered each year to help pay for training opportunities or to help defray the costs of attending the national AAJA or Unity conventions.

The chapter can award Executive Leadership Program grants of up to $1,000 and other grants of up to $250.

For convention grants, applicants who submit their forms by the early registration deadline will be eligible for $250 grants. Those who submit their applications by the pre-registration deadline will be eligible for $200 grants.

Anyone who submits an application up to one week before convention or a training program will be eligible for $150 grants.

Applications received less than one week before a professional development program or convention will not be considered.